UNLOADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unloaded mean? 

• UNLOADED (adjective)
  The adjective UNLOADED has 1 sense:

1. (of weapons) not charged with ammunition

  Familiarity information: UNLOADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLOADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of weapons) not charged with ammunition

Context example:

many people are killed by guns thought to be unloaded

Similar:

blank (not charged with a bullet)

dud (failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive)

Antonym:

loaded ((of weapons) charged with ammunition)

 Context examples 

Messner unharnessed the animals, unloaded his sled and took possession.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After they had travelled three miles they unloaded the sled, came back for her, and by main strength put her on the sled again.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had unloaded the boat and carried its contents high up on the beach, where I had set about making a camp.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Always store guns unloaded.

(Gun Safety, NIH)

When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and spitting on it for luck, lazily went each to his horse's head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When they put a clothes-sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they had put it on the back, and covered it over with a couple of other bundles, she discovered overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very sack, and they unloaded again.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)